Roseway Bathroom
Project Description
This Roseway neighborhood bathroom is located in a quaint little 1914 home. This bathroom had a typical design for these older Portland homes. It was cramped, didn’t meet modern building code for clearances and wasn’t functional for the homeowner. We proposed several different improved layouts–all of which had good points and bad points.
The biggest challenge that faced us was that the bathroom wasn’t quite long enough by a matter of inches. We didn’t have enough space for a vanity and toilet unless we put in a very small pedestal sink. The pedestal sink just wasn’t enough space for the homeowner. The final design came from an idea the homeowner originally had when he saw some pre-fabricated vanity/toilet combinations that were made in the UK. There isn’t a company that makes anything like them in the US, but the system would technically meet Oregon Building Code. We created a custom vanity that incorporated a wall-mount toilet that mounted to a specially designed bracing system hidden in the cabinet. This gave the homeowner much more counter/vanity space and still a very functional toilet space that met code.
We enjoy projects like this that allow us to create something new and unique to meet a specific customer’s needs.